These tours are always popular and usually sell out in the pre-sale to London Transport Museum email subscribers. This is probably one reason why LTM have increased the prices of the tours. For example:

Euston Lost Tunnels was £35 in 2016 now £41.50

55 Broadway was £32.50 now £38.50

Clapham South was £35 now £41.50

I always wonder where this money goes as the tours are all run by volunteers. Nonetheless, if you want to do the tour then that’s the price.

Tickets for five tours/events will go on sale to LT email subscribers at 10am 21st November 2017:

Euston: The Lost Tunnels

Euston: The Photography Tour

55 Broadway: London’s First Skyscraper

Clapham South: Subterranean shelter

Clapham South: Subterranean Screenings

Sales to the general public start 22nd November. My previous booking experience, using the priority link that is sent on the 21st November, was:

Click at 10am

Find myself in a queue behind hundreds of others and eventually have the chance to buy after 40 minutes or so.

Discover a labyrinth of dark and deserted passageways which were once used by the travelling public and see a gallery of preserved vintage poster fragments that have been hidden for over 50 years. This secret space is located below a busy Tube station that serves almost 42 million passengers each year and Euston national rail station.

This tour is an abbreviated version of Euston: The lost tunnels tour. It will be led by an expert tour guide with additional time structured in for photography. Please be aware this tour is a non-instructional photography tour and there will not be a professional photographer on site for instruction. You will need to have a good working knowledge of and provide your own photographic equipment. You must be self-sufficient in the use of your equipment.

55 Broadway was the headquarters of London Transport and later London Underground until 2016. This Grade I listed structure – London’s first skyscraper – was considered radical and offensive when unveiled in 1929. Now a fabulous example of Art Deco London, visitors will be able to see beautifully detailed offices, grand meetings rooms, and stunning rooftops views.

Opened to the public in July 1944, Clapham South deep-level shelter has over a mile of subterranean passageways that reveal the extraordinary stories of those who sheltered here. Find out how Londoners took refuge underground during the Blitz and how it was home to Jamaican migrants in the 1940s as well as visitors to the Festival of Britain in the 1950s.

Cosy up underneath a blanket 180 steps underground and watch a bespoke Second World War film reel curated by London Transport Museum. See one of 16 sub-shelters in the vast complex of tunnels and learn about the realities of being a Londoner during the Second World War whilst sitting in one of eight deep-level shelters that exists across London.

With first hand oral histories and footage from people that actually sheltered here during the V-weapon raids and throughout the end of the war, Ministry of Information propaganda films, cartoons and newsreel clips of the day, this unique event will transport you to a time encapsulated in history in this shelter hidden deep underground.

20th April update: I visited the LT website this morning and all tours are sold out. My best advice is to create an account with LT and register for emails – that way when the next tours are announced, you can jump in early and have an account ready to purchase tickets.

Late Afternoon update: I did finally arrive at the front of the online ticket queue. The dates that I was interested in were already sold out. The tour with most availability was Down Street – not surprising at £75 per ticket. If you haven’t already tried for tickets today you’ll need to very flexible on dates. Perhaps tomorrow, the general public sale will reveal more tickets, although I have a feeling there won’t be.

London Transport regularly run tours of disused Underground stations and tunnels. I previously visited the old Strand/Aldgate station. These tours are always popular and sell out really quickly.

Four tours are now available, including two new tours:

NEW for 2016 – Euston: The Lost Tunnels

NEW for 2016 – 55 Broadway: London’s First Skyscraper

Down Street: Churchill’s Secret Station

Clapham South: Subterranean shelter

Here is the link to book. Sales to the general public start 20th April but this link was in a 24-hour advance booking email that I received today. However, when I clicked I was placed in a queue behind several thousand others and am currently still waiting for my chance to buy tickets.

NEW for 2016 – Euston: The Lost Tunnels

Discover a labyrinth of dark and deserted passageways which were once used by the travelling public and see a gallery of preserved vintage poster fragments that have been hidden for over 50 years. This secret space is located below a busy Tube station that serves almost 42 million passengers each year and Euston national rail station.

NEW for 2016 – 55 Broadway: London’s First Skyscraper

55 Broadway was the headquarters of London Transport and later London Underground until 2016. This Grade I listed structure – London’s first skyscraper – was considered radical and offensive when unveiled in 1929. Now a fabulous example of Art Deco London, visitors will be able to see beautifully detailed offices, grand meetings rooms, and stunning rooftops views.

Down Street: Churchill’s Secret Station

Get an intimate look into one of London’s most intriguing hidden spaces where Prime Minister Winston Churchill took refuge secretly at the height of the Blitz. Down Street station became critical to winning the Second World War when it was covertly transformed into the Railway Executive Committee’s bomb-proof bunker.

Clapham South: Subterranean shelter

Opened to the public in July 1944, Clapham South deep-level shelter has over a mile of subterranean passageways that reveal the extraordinary stories of those who sheltered here. Find out how Londoners took refuge underground during the Blitz and how it was home to Jamaican migrants in the 1940s as well as visitors to the Festival of Britain in the 1950s.